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Ganesh
(Prabhudeva) and Anthony are the best dancers in the
town. Ganesh defeats Anthony in the final round of a
dance championship and qualifies for the international
dancing competitions. The same night, Ganeshs
loses his legs in an accident, which was covertly performed
by the gang of Anthony. Raghava (Lawrence) is an orphan
who has tremendous dancing talent and he works as a
cleaning boy in a dance school. Raghavas goal
in life to become somebody in dancing and it is the
wish of his mother too. Ganesh looks for an able boy
to make him into dancing star to compete with Anthony
and finds Raghava. The rest of the story is all about
how Raghava fulfils the wish of his mentor Ganesh and
his mother.

Artists Performance

Lawrence:
Lawrence is good in the lead role. He took care of his
looks by opting for appearance and make-up that was
followed in Hollywood classics. The digital intermediate
(digital color grading) helped him look bit fair. Coming
to the histrionics aspect, he is cool. What makes the
biggest difference to the entire film are superb dances
performed by Lawrence. Generally we use the phrase adrenaline
rush for the action sequences, but such a kind
of phrase is the most appropriate for the dances he
performed in this film. The remix of Rikshavodu song
and 4-legged dances do standout. He also made sure that
he underplayed the mass elements and leftout the serious
fights to Nagarjuna and Chiranjeevi.

Others:
Prabhu Deva is good as
the dancer and mentor of Lawrence. Raja,
Charmme and Kamalinee
got supporting roles in the film. Raja is really cute.
Charmme is used as pawn in the first half to entice
Lawrence and create a bit of romance between them. Kamalinee
did the role of Prabhu Devas sister. Dharmavarapu
Subramanyam and Kovai Saralas
comedy is good. Jaya Sudha
did a small yet vital role in this film. Nagarjuna
and Chiranjeevi made a
surprise entrances into this film and cheer the crowds
up with fights.

Technical Departments:

Story:
This basic storyline resembles us of Bollywood flick
Street Dancers. Certain parts of the films
are inspired by Hollywood dance flicks. Charmme - Lawrence
episode in dance school is inspired by Dance with
me. Lawrence made sure that there is good revenge
formula in the film though its a dance based film.

Screenplay
- direction: Screenplay and direction in the film
are worth commending. It is very difficult to get emotions
right in dance based film and Lawrence succeeded touching
your hearts with certain scenes in the film. He handled
the first half really well, but could not sustain the
same tempo in the second half. Certain scenes like mother
dying and pre-climax kidnapping and shooting episodes
should have been dealt cautiously. However, Lawrence
succeeded in presenting this film in an entertaining
way.

Other
Departments: Choreography by Lawrence is simply
superb. Camerawork by Kabir Lal is an asset with the
use of Super 35 camera. Music by Mani Sharma is good.
Rerecording is excellent. Merupai Sagara song
is really good with an appropriate lyric - Andariki
chetullo vuntundi geetha. Neekemo Kaallallo aa brahma
raatha. The Digital Intermediate (digital
color grading) by Prime Focus is very good. Editing
by Marthand K Venkatesh is nice. Dialogues by Kula Sekhar
and Prabhakar are appropriate. It is a very good effort
from LARSCO banner to make such a message oriented film
like Style with high standards of filmmaking.

Analysis:
First half of the film is very good. The tempo in second
half goes down a bit, but the climax episode is good.
Lawrence proves with this film that he is not a flash
in the pan as a director. Style film is a one man show
by Lawrence (direction, action and choreography) with
amazing dances and some nice moments. It is nice to
see the title cards in the film that are shot with the
backdrop of disabled children dancing. But, Lawrence
should have dealt the episode of dancing with bullets
in knees more cautiously. On a whole, Style is definitely
worth a watch and has all chances to become hit. It
is up to the producer Lagadapati Sridhar to promote
it to the full extent.